Work Continued

My work has progressed well since my last post. Firstly I have decided on how to create the island rock.

This a second attempt at the milliput applied onto the yellow foam test. As you can see I have decided to test my painting skills as well. There are a few things I will change when doing the real piece. The rock work could have used a bit more texture in small areas and I will try to use the foil technique to create this.
The colour is to dark and I will try to implement the white earlier in the painting process to achieve this. The green stains do not work well but brown ones used correctly do seem to work.

Next I finished the top tanks rock work, I knew I had limited space and that only small parts of the rock work would be on view due to scale and the designs.

This is milliput sandblasted while wet on a textured surface made from yellow foam and styrene. The texture has worked really well, the dry bushing I have done really brings it out and replicates a good texture within the small area that I have.

As you can see in the image above yellow foam has been cut into shapes and sandblasted in the under water areas ready for sculpting which will start once I have decided how to create the under water rock work.

The reason for my indecision in the lower rock work is that my research indicates a far varied textural surface that is far more detailed than the attempts I have produced.

This is a photograph of coral from Palau you first notice the the mass of bright colors and then the varied texture. I hope to produce something along these lines and may try using technique together to get the variety of texture.

While looking through my pictures of Palau I noticed this one.

The way the ripples and light have created an effect on the sea bed have inspired me to try and create a similar effect on my model using acrylic paints and I will post the results on this blog later.

I have also started to order materials to create the Island foliage. I'm using woodland scenics and scale link due to conversations and practice while at Lazenby Design.
I have images like this to inspire me to create an environment that represents Palau.

I have also finalised the design for the other top tank.

Both designs are now ready to Laser cut out of sheet styrene and this will hopefully be done tomorrow if not as soon as possible.

With four weeks to go including this one, I need to research the corals that I will be creating and create hundreds of them, finish the rock work and paint, spray paint all the styrene white and fill in any gaps, create the foliage, create a space for Lazenby Designs logo, create scale information boards, work out way to insert the water affect pvc, apply scale people, order plants from scale link, and other finishing touches.

My main priority this week will be to get the rock work ready to paint and to start creating corals.

Wish me luck!